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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kerim try to talk Bond into doing?

2. What does Klebb have hidden in her boot?

3. Who does Nash say is staying next to Tatiana and Bond?

4. What kind of vehicle follows Bond and Kerim?

5. Who does Bond think the man who seems interested in him is?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the gypsy allow Bond to stay and see the fight?

2. Describe the fight between the gypsies and the faceless ones

3. What does Grant's say is the Russian's plot?

4. What does Bond think of Darko Kerim?

5. Why does Bond think the man is not mentally competent?

6. What new information does the gypsy give Kerim?

7. What has Kerim arranged for Bond and Tatiana?

8. Why does Tatiana refuse to take a plane?

9. Summarize the novel.

10. What causes Bond to turn around?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fleming writes FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE in the third person. Why do you think Fleming chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would have changed if Fleming wrote it in the first person?

Essay Topic 2

FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE was made into a film starring Sean Connery as James Bond. Why do you think the themes and ideas in the book are still relevant years later? How did the filmmakers adapt the themes to fit in with the new environment? How did these changes affect the meaning of the story?

Essay Topic 3

Examine violence in the novel.

1) How do the characters in the novel view violence? Are there are character that would think twice before shooting or hitting someone?

2) Do the characters need to be violent to cope in the world that Fleming portrays?

3) How do the students think the public reacted to the novel's violence when it was first published? How would the public react to such a book today?

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